Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-10

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seen to be fully appreciated
day engaged in the arduous labor of ex.
aiming the books of County Treasurer
II. C. Kessler and Sheriff Lloyd. They
finished the Treasurer's books.
An execution was issued by Judge Lip
pincott yesterday in the cass of Dick Eos
ter on the property belonging to him in
tho constable's hands, at the, suit OF Lach-
man & Dunstan, which will be sold at auc-
ton this day week.
A chiIdren's social will he held this
Thur day. evening in the Baptist 'hurch
for the children OF the Sunday school. AL
the children who have been members OF the
school any time daring the year will have q
good time if they come. ,
The A. o. H. picnic. which was announced
for the 18th, has Eeen abandoned, as the
committee at their meeting last night came
to the conclusion that it was too late in the
season to depend with reasonable certainty
upon favorable weather.
The Union Pacific Office will commence
to sell G. A. r. excursion tickets on the
21st, SO that those intending to be present
at the opening of the reunion on the morn
ing OF the 26th cal get there in time for
the opening exercises.
Saturday will be the last day that the
$40 rate to Warm Springs will be on sale
of people here who have families there. will
go down to the Springs on Sunday. The
hotel closes on the Nth.
The case of Territory vs. VIM. Doherty,
for mayhem on the person of John Bomby
yesterday morning, was brought up i n Judge
Lippincott's court yesterday afternoon,
and upon request of the defendant post
poned to 2 O'Clock to-day. ~r
Alecture will be delivered by Rev. Father
Cuchnahan, of Ogden, this evening on a
very interesting subject at St. Patrick's
Church. Services will at 8
O'Clock o. NJ. Both Catholics and non-
Catholics are invited to attend.
The funeral of Michael Breen, u member
OF the Miners Union, who died in this city
on the 9Th instant, will take place from the
residence OF Mrs. Charles Masters, at Bur
lington. to-day. Friends and members of
N. J.. o' Sri fron to 7assff ear Neb.,
has been appointed chief train dispatcher
of the Montana Union, relieving James
Carson in the position who has been given
the agency at Warm Springs at his own
request. The change goes into effect to.
day.
Miss Johanna Smith appeared in Justice
Dingevon's court yesterday afternoon and
swore out a warrant for the arrest of a
Young man OF a charge of bastardy which
the Justice set for 2 O'Clock this afternoon.
The defendant was admitted to bail on a
$500 bond.
The wind rose suddenly yesterday after
noon and at the Court House there was
some apprehension OF a cyclone for a min
ute. The chairs standing in the porch
woro h1Owr int, tho ho1 ,rLso1 ~ooJo To.-
the Janitor, turn pale and close the door
in a. hurry.
Michael Brun. of Wilkesbarre, Pa, died
at noon yesterday at DR.. Bishops Hos
pital ofchronic diarrhea and typhoid fever,
age 70 years 1t is not known vet whether
his body will be buried here or shipped to
bis friends in the East who have been
telegraphed.
The County Treasurer is having prepared
a list of parties paying license under the
revenue law to be published in compliance
with the requirements OF the revenue law.
Some OF the business houses in town who
are in arrears on license should get around
the office before the list is published.
= The center show window of the Bonner
Mercantile Company's establishment is a
model OF the window dresser's art, q be-
wllderlng maze OF beauty and good taste
combined. This combination of the beau
tiful and the artistic is the work of Sam
Clerke, superintendent of their first floor.
The Montana Contra Railroad has Dur.
chased 4 million feet of lumber from the
Miners Lumber Company. in South Butte, |
and has let the contract for hauling it to
the crossing # Woodville Canyon, where a
bridge is to be constructed. The price paid |
the lumber is $4,000. The bridge will
be one OF the largest along the road. |
In the Police Court YESTERDAY F. W.
Lewls who had been drunk and asleep on
Park street, was fined 81 and costs and al
W to go on a promise to rustic it up, |
w. DOherty, Tor creating a disturbance at q |
popular resort, was fined $40 and costs and
Che same amount for assault and battery |
on John Bumby.
1t is getting along towards the %eouino.
tlal season, and yesterday a heavy storm
was Imminent two or three times during
The day. The clouds settled down in. heavy
masses and the wind rose threateningly but
it passed off with bluster. In the evening.
about g., a splendid rainbow renewed the
OF immunity from being drowned
out that day. ~'7"-I
!, Catherine Kreiser was yesterday a b
pointed administrative by the Probate
.ourt OF her decea sed husband Alfred
kreiser, who died from the effects 81 a fall
hto the railway cut above the Clear Grit
nine. Her attorneys, Messrs. Mcbride &
lave begun preliminary proceed
ngs for damages from the Utah & North.
The County Clerk has been instructed to
write the Butte representatives to have an +
'ct passed to clearly define the county
'oundaries. 1t is also necessary to have a
legislative definition OF the right and left
land OF creeks, as a good many of the
netes and bounds Of real estate are des-
cr:bed in these words, and it is at present
doubt whether this means looking up
tream or down.
w. j. Potter. who has heretofore been Z
gent OF the National Oil Company, the '
Branch of the Standard. with {
eadquarters at Butte, has been promoted. 6
he fourth promotion since his connection ,
18th the company began. He has now been !
,ade General Agent Of this corporation for :
l%ontana, Colorado. New Mexico, Wyoming =
Idaho, with headquarters at Denver, /
hence he will move his family about the s
OF the month. We like to see so &C. y
a gentleman ascending the h
usiness ladder with such rapid strides. h
The County Clerk yesterday wrote the let $
n to Representative Mantle referred to in f
mornings paper on the subject C
legislative definition of the C~ounty's
oundaries. Some of the landmarks, as
defined, are obliterated and
thers inaccurate. "A suit is pending upon
resident of the debatable border land BY il
County authorities for taxes "
hich have been collected by Silver Bow =
,unty. II new legislation this session is !
'rmissible, this is a case calling for it's inn o.
ediate exercise as a measure OF %absolutely ii
relief. e,